When you look at all the blotched plastic surgeries made to people faces and body why would you want to risk it?

And I mean some real BLOTCHES.

But it appears that plastic surgery and bleaching, lightening your skin color, is growing ever more popular among church people these days. And especially amongst women in the pulpit.

I was on YouTube recently watching some videos a week or so ago, and I came upon this woman by the name T. L. Penny, whom I think can really peach. Well, she could at 1 point. But I don’t think she is as good as she used to be when I first heard her. But in watching that video something suddenly struck me. At first I did not notice it… but then it finally hit me. I thought she had been darker.

So, I went back to look at some older videos of her on YouTube. Low and behold, I was right. She had been darker before.

Look at the distinct difference in her nose, her lips and other facial features. It is not hard to see that Pastor Penny must have decided to go all the way, and did not just stop at the bleaching of her skin.

The peculiar part about T. L. Penny is this. I had gone up over her website when I initially ran across her over the internet… which is something I just do… and often. I like to check out various websites all the time as I come across them and/or their links.

I like checking out my competition… meaning other graphic artists work… their layout and designs etc. So, while viewing T. L. Penny’s site she had this picture of herself. Which, of course, there is nothing big about having a picture of yourself on your site, as everybody usually has a picture or 2 if not more of them-self on their websites. But, however, I though it a bit peculiar at the time, because the picture looked nothing like T. L. Penny. It looked nothing like the woman in the video, whose link I had just come across on YouTube.

So, yeah it struck me as being odd that someone would have a website and would have posted a picture that looked nothing at all like them… with not 1 other picture of herself on that website anywhere of her otherwise. But at that time I just rationalized that T. L. Penny liked that picture so she posted it. This mind you was long before her plastic surgery and the bleaching of her skin had taken place. That picture at that time, however, is today very close to what T. L. Penny has managed to have transformed herself into looking like… thanks to some aid from a surgeon somewhere. So, I guess at that time that I saw that picture, she was speaking it into the atmosphere… and had been saving the money to get it done.

This had been about the third time while watching something on YouTube that I have happened to notice that somebody in ministry… mostly women… had become bleachers… and/or had otherwise gone under a plastic surgeon’s knife. And the list seems to be growing.

Not too long ago I noticed this about a very prominent Bishop’s wife. I could see that she had both bleached, and also had some plastic surgery work done. That was Bishop Paul Morton’s wife, Debra B. Morton. She appears to have made herself younger… lighter, and also had some things done to enhance her looks.

Also, a while back.. a few years back to be exact… I had noticed that Paula White, Pastor Paula… had also gone under the plastic surgeon’s knife. I saw it right off when first began transitioning from what she used to look like to what she looks like today. In fact, shortly after that transformation I had read that both Paula White and her husband at the time, Randy White… had both gone under the knife, and were then being investigated for misusing church funds to do it. As well as, having made numerous other type of purchases with church money.

It is amazing to me that these people profess to love the Lord… and all that He has done. Can quote how when God finished His work in Genesis. How He called it all good. And then at the very end of all that He had done He called it all ‘very good.’

Then if God feels that when He has created something that it is good, who are we to believe we can come behind Him and improve upon what God has done?

Don’t they believe that God has created them as He would have them to be?

And let me ask you this question…

If God has created it… should be messing with it?

And I mean anything… everything which God has created… should we messing with any of it… believing we can do it better… or enhance it?

Man has corrupted all of what we now eat. Our water… the rain… the ground… the food… the cattle… herds… produce… the atmosphere… EVERYTHING. And we cannot undo it.

None of the food or vegetables we eat taste like what it used to taste like some 10 or 20… or 30 or 40 years ago. Man has tainted everything. And man has done it believing that he can out do God. Which is impossible.

So, here are some prominent church people… and they believe that their plastic surgeons can improve upon what God has already done. Let us see what time will have to say about this matter. Because just like Michael Jackson… I believe there will come a day when these people will not be able to walk out their front door exposing their faces. Because they will come to look so hideous.

Our faces and even our bodies are in a constant evolution. They do not stay the same. They are not the same as they were when we were born, and they will not be the same when we die. So, if the aging process continually is changing our faces, how can surgery on your face or body at a any point in your life not also be subject to life changes?

They have to be aware of this. So, being aware… because they have to be aware of this. So, being aware of this they still want to subject themselves to the possibility of ending up 1 big grotesque mess. Because they played with something they should not have.

Me… I would not do it. I just would not do it. And that is not to say that I ever liked anything about me. But over time I can see where time has made a pleasant difference in my overall appearance.

I never realized that even Kirk Franklin had paid a visit to the plastic surgeon. And who knows who else. There are so many of them… many in the recording industry.

Pastor Jackie McCullough appears to have gotten into the bleaching swing. Something which many in Africa and in the West Indies seem to be indulging in.

Like Cindy Trimm and Juanita Bynum many women of the Cloth are electing go up under a plastic surgeon’s knife and/or bleach their skin in order to achieve something they undoubtedly longed for. Beauty. And don’t mind paying for it.

But beauty is elusive. And it is not long lasting… and desire of it really stems from vanity …and also covetousness.

It was Solomon who spoke of vanity. I guess he was not called the wisest man for nothing. There is truly a lot to be said about vanity… and it is going on in the pulpit. And these plastic surgeons are reaping the benefits of it.

To bad all that money is not going towards feeding the poor… or trying to clothe them. Or maybe even trying to aid in supplying housing for the needy… the fatherless or the motherless.

What does this signify for the church?

Or to the young women in the church… whom we are supposed to teaching ‘to love themselves?’

I came across this picture of T. L. Penny and had to include it.

This apparel strikes as something contradictory to real gospel teaching.

What could have possessed this so-called preacher to dress like this?

This is the dress she wore as the Mother of the Bride. Not only were her breast exposed… but take a look at how short the skirt was.

I don’t know what I’m talking about.

SKIRT???

She has on no clothes… as my father would say. She really isn’t wearing anything up top.

I’m just wondering if was she out working on getting herself a husband?

Or just looking for somebody to go home with?

Definitely not somebody who I would turn to for ministry… or even to attempt to correct me. Or try to show me how to live.

I just keep coming back to this picture. I can’t believe that any woman who calls herself in service for the Lord would wear such a thing. I am also wondering if you got implants, as well, to her breast. Can’t think of any other reason to want to dress wearing something like what she has on in this picture… unless she did.

Now, that I think of it… it reminds me of another YouTube video I saw. It was video of a prostitute… with her nipples exposed talking about the Lord.

Unbelievable… Truly diverse times.

Well, God bless… I’ve got to move on my next blog now. Because I don’t want to get out of here without commenting on what I have got to say next. But hope you stick around to read it. And I hope you are enjoying your week… and may it continue to be a good 1 for you.

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